WOW...I checked out this thread at it's inception and just now returned and started reading from the last page. I only made it to page nine.
I think that if everyone tries to look through all the urine, there isn't really an argument. In what'shisface's pasted post..well in one of them, it says something like..SOME people have had success getting rid of something using
hygrozyme but that it's really used as a preventative.
Now...I run sterile reses and don't want any organic life in them.
Hygrozyme contributes to organic activity and I don't want that. That's just me though..personally I don't think the words hydroponic and organic should even be used in the same sentence let alone the same res. I also don't get using enzymes after adding sterilizers (killers) but..whatever.
The point is that it is "reported" that
Hygrozyme, used as a preventative, will inhibit root pathogens. Well that could very well be true. I'm pretty sure that when I started researching DWC and RDWC many people were suggesting HZ..you know..to allegedly breaking down dead roots and turn them into organic nutrients. It sure seemed like those people were successful using
Hygrozyme. Shit..when I went to buy supplies for my first RDWC system,
Hygrozyme was near the top of my shopping list but..the shop didnt have any. Dude recommended Cannazyme saying it was the same thing. well..that wasnt good enough..I wanted the real thing. Looks like God had my back cause I never DID manage to get a hold of any enzymes.
Now we all hear horror stories about Hygroslyme. It IS possible that all these bad reports come from people who already had pathogens...or were predisposed to have them. Like I said..Hygroslyme...DAMN..I didnt even mean that..
Hygrozyme themselves, in that pasted ad dude posted, even say it is to be used as a preventative and they go as far as to carefully say that there have been rare cases where HZ has actually "cured" some root problems.
So...it seems like maybe everyone actually sort of agrees.
Hygrozyme is just about the LAST thing you want to add to a res once it has problems...but...if you have NO problems, HZ might not actually CAUSE any.
Again..I just generally have a problem adding anything to my sterile (dead) reses that says organic on the container.
To the OP...don't use HZ to try to fix slime. Sterile reses (and cool ones) will prevent most pathogens. Just about the only thing they wont keep away..or fix..is the brown algae. For that use benes like
Great White or an EWC tea with GW or ZHO and Aquashield.
Good entertaining read though...for a WHILE..then it just got boring and repetitive. Peace, love, and granola everyone!